Mystical Lamb

Jan van Eyck, with his brother Hubert painted The Altarpiece of the Mystical Lamb.

(He still travels to Ghent every two months, he told me, to look at van Eyck's painting "The Mystical Lamb.")

Above the high altar is a large central painting of the heavenly liturgy mentioned in Revelations 5: the Adoration of the Mystical Lamb of God.

The ceiling of the apse is adorned by the painting "Glory of the Mystical Lamb" by Baciccia (Giovanni Battista Gaulli).

Make sure to check out the Sint-Baafskathedraal which has one of the crown jewels of Flemish art: the altarpiece of Van Eyck's The Adoration of the Mystical Lamb.

The lunette of the left portal is decorated with a statue of the mystical lamb, while the consoles near the vault contains statues of angel Gabriel and Virgin Mary, which are older than the portal.